Geoffrey Bilson Award

The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year. The award is named after Geoffrey Bilson, a writer of historical fiction for youth and a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan who died suddenly in 1987.

The Geoffrey Bilson Award is selected by a jury chosen by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Award winners must be Canadian authors, and the winning novel must have been published in the previous calendar year. Each year's winner receives a $1000 (C$) prize.

Winners

*1988 - Carol Matas, "Lisa"
*1989 - joint winners
**Martyn Godfrey, "Mystery in the Frozen Lands"
**Dorothy Perkyns, "Rachel's Revolution"
*1990 - Kit Pearson, "The Sky is Falling"
*1991 - Marianne Brandis, "The Sign of the Scales"
*1992 - no award
*1993 - Celia Barker Lottridge, "Ticket to Curlew"
*1994 - Kit Pearson, "The Lights Go On Again"
*1995 - Joan Clark, "The Dream Carvers"
*1996 - Marianne Brandis, "Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada"
*1997 - Janet McNaughton, "To Dance at the Palais Royale"
*1998 - Irene N. Watts, "Good-Bye Marianne"
*1999 - Iain Lawrence, "The Wreckers"
*2000 - deferred to following year
*2001 - Sharon McKay, "Charlie Wilcox"
*2002 - Virginia Frances Schwartz, "If I Just Had Two Wings"
*2003 - Joan Clark, "The Word for Home"
*2004 - Brian Doyle, "Boy O'Boy"
*2005 - Michel Noël, "Good for Nothing"
*2006 - Pamela Porter, "The Crazy Man"
*2007 - Eva Wiseman, "Kanada"

External links

* [http://www.bookcentre.ca/awards/bilson/index.shtml Canadian Children's Book Centre's "Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers" site]